Courageous Saga (新世代ロボット戦記ブレイブサーガ), launched 12/17/98, developed and launched by Takara
This sport is principally Tremendous Robotic Wars, however with Takara’s “Courageous [yuusha] collection”. I’m not all that accustomed to this collection aside from GaoGaiGear (which was in plenty of Tremendous Robotic Taisen video games). It’s principally a collection of tremendous robotic anime which are geared toward children. This sport was made after the primary seven collection and so includes all of these, plus appearances by a couple of non-Courageous collection (together with Votoms), and a brand new collection known as “The Saint of Braves Baan Gaan. That is principally like the unique characters in SRW video games, though Takara apparently considers it the eighth Courageous collection regardless of by no means having an precise anime to go along with it.
I can’t inform precisely how the collection are being handled since I don’t know the backgrounds of any of them. I’m undecided if the collection ever had any crossover components within the anime themselves. They positively should not beginning in the beginning of each anime as a result of a lot of the non-Baan Gaan robots are already energetic, but it surely’s not after these animes conclude both. Until a commenter might help out I don’t suppose I’m going to attempt to determine a lot about this.
The sport begins with Grandark, who appears to be the Baan Gaan adversaries. These spheres are “Astar”, however they’re unable to seal away Grandark by themselves. So that they go to Earth to search out individuals with brave hearts to assist.
Every stage has an anime-like “eyecatch”.
The principle character is Shunpei, who does some form of toy robotic combating with these robots known as VARS. However when the Grandark minions assault the dome the place his event is, one of many Astar detects Shunpei’s heroic coronary heart and the VARS turns into a large robotic (Baan) when Shunpei yells “Courageous Change!” I don’t suppose any of the children truly pilot the mechs, they only watch them from the aspect?
The battle system isn’t actually that very similar to SRW regardless of the comparisons. It’s on a speed-turn system slightly than participant/enemy, and there’s going through.
The 5 choices there are:
- Transfer (self explanatory)
- Assault — you will have a couple of completely different choices, with varied ranges and whether or not they price EP or not. You’ll be able to restore your EP with objects or through the use of the wait command.
- Select counterattack — you may select defend, dodge, or choose one in every of your assaults.
- Wait
- Merchandise
Sadly you may’t skip animations.
Becoming a member of Baan are Exkaiser and Fighbird, that are the primary two Courageous Collection anime.
The second stage introduces J-Decker, the police mech.
After the third stage, you get entry to the VARS base. Right here you are able to do plenty of issues.
First, you may speak to individuals, which may simply be random conversations however you may additionally entry subscenarios – proper off the bat you may get two of them right here. You’ll be able to create objects with CP that you just earn within the battles (it looks like creating objects will unlock extra extra highly effective objects). You should utilize factors that you just get from levelling as much as increase Baan’s stats — the sport appears to point that different individuals may have this skill as effectively however to this point it’s simply Baan. Lastly, you may load/save, and go to the subsequent stage.
In Stage 4 the enemies use some bizarre plant to wither a park, however we defeat them.
That’s all I did this week. The sport isn’t significantly arduous, and the story is appropriately child-anime like. The graphics and presentation are higher than SRW however I really feel that it’s not as strategically strong, significantly with out the “seishin” instructions.
